Designing the Pattern of Learning Transfer to Work Environment in Human Resource Development Programs

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to provide a model for transferring learning to the workplace, based on a qualitative study design, we used a foundation-based approach to data theory. There was selected 30 managers, faculty members, employees, experts and human resources to be interviewed at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Sampling done by following a theoretical one and the interviewees was selected by mean of snow ball technique. After deriving main themes and concepts from the written-facet interviews, researchers did analysis them by a mixed micro analyses. It was a combination of open and axial coding. The derived main themes categorized: individual factors, educational factors, organizational factors. The conditions for the transfer of learning: the conditions of the transfer, management factors and financial power of the organization. Interventional conditions include: trans-organization factors; strategic factors including: structural strategies, process strategies, and environmental strategies. The consequences of learning transfer were identified at both levels of individual and organizational

Keywords

• learning transfer
• foundation data theory
• causal conditions
• background conditions